Biography
Lila Perl, the daughter of Russian immigrants fleeing anti-Semitism, published over sixty volumes of fiction and nonfiction for young readers during her long and distinguished career. In addition to the beloved *Fat Glenda* series, Perl twice received American Library Association Notable awards for nonfiction and was a recipient of the Sydney Taylor Award for *Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story*. She died in 2013 at the age of ninety-two. *Isabel's War* and its completed sequel, *Lilli's Quest*, were her final works.
Books by Lila Perl
Me and Fat Glenda
Theocracy (Political Systems of the World)
Cloning (Open for Debate)
The Ancient Maya (People of the Ancient World)
The Ancient Egyptians (People of the Ancient World)
Terrorism (Open for Debate)
To the Golden Mountain
North Across the Border
Four Perfect Pebbles a Holocaust Story
It Happened in America
Architectural Design-Col
Architectural Design-Col
Fat Glenda turns fourteen
From top hats to baseball caps, from bustles to blue jeans
Molly Picon
Great Ancestor Hunt
Don't sing before breakfast, don't sleep in the moonlight
Hey, Remember Fat Glenda?
Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure
Marleen
The secret diary of Katie Dinkerhoff
Blue Monday and Friday the Thirteenth
Marleen, the horror queen
Annabelle Starr, E.S.P.
Candles, cakes, and donkey tails
TheTelltale Summer of Tina C
Tybee Trimble's hard times
Piñatas and paper flowers
Red star & green dragon
Guatemala, Central America's living past
Eating the vegetarian way
Junk food, fast food, health food
Pieface and Daphne
Puerto Rico, island between two worlds
Mexico, crucible of the Americas
Hunter's stew and hangtown fry, what pioneer America ate and why
Dumb like me, Olivia Potts
The global food shortage
Ghana and Ivory Coast
The telltale summer of Tina C
America goes to the fair
America goes to the fair
The hamburger book
East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Ethiopia, land of the lion
Ethiopia, land of the lion
Living in Lisbon
Living in Lisbon
Living in Naples
Living in Naples / Lila Perl
Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria
Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria
No tears for Rainey
No tears for Rainey
Rice, spice, and bitter oranges
What cooks in suburbia